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Actor Thinking
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Summary
Dale Schumacher explains the actor concept and how it helps us build a computational model resembling the reality around us more accurately than the object-oriented model.
Bio
Dale Schumacher has contributed to several open source projects: standard libraries for C, the "clean" font family for the X-Window system, enhancements to the Minix O/S kernel, a Java servlet-based wiki; also to "Graphics Gems" I, II, and III. Outside of coaching and mentoring, his focus the last few years has been on the development of an Actor Based Environment for prototyping actor solutions.
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Apr 14, 2011